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Luke Kennard

@lukekennard.bsky.social

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Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 29d

Reminder that my new poetry collection (my SEVENTH because I apparently cannot take a hint) is available from Picador www.panmacmillan.com/authors/luke...

A big superimposed copy of Luke’s book, The Book of Jonah, “emerges” from the sea.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 1h

It does look stunning. Unfortunately I think it pays quite badly.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2h

You kids with your fancy humanities degrees when you should be doing stuff the world actually needs like mining rare earth minerals in Inner Mongolia

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3h

Place a little bet, buy a little vape, drink a Greggs espresso by a bin and gaze at the otherworldly palatial splendour of your local fire brigade

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3h

It’s weird that the fire station is always by far the fanciest building in any given English town or burb

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3h

*mid 2020s.

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3h

And that is the plight of the artist in the mid 21st century.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3h

“You’re pudding the cart before the horse!”

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 3h

His friend, a doughnut, who also gives life advice, but does so while live-streaming Cyberpunk 2077, despairs. “You’re just not pudding yourself out there! How do you expect to develop a following selling obsolete media via an obsolete distribution system?”

Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 4h

He’s a life coach or something. Doesn’t do online, you have to mail order DVDs of him.

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 4h

Character notes: a talking pudding. Says things like, “Why do you keep pudding this off?” and “You’re pudding me in a really difficult place” and “Let me try pudding it this way”

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 15h

Early Bjork videos

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 15h

I’d like to see a single invasive thought get through THAT!

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 15h

Euro qualifier on the telly, Mario on the switch, video essay about the fall of the Mayan empire on phone, novel on kindle, and posting about it

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 16h

It should be possible to achieve FIFTH screen entertainment

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

“In this weeks news: we’re so into Honda Civics! Just kidding here’s an interview with Jeremy Renner”

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 2d

I love it when a newspaper supplement has a fake cover, which still has their name and logo, but it’s an advert for clothes or a car and you’re like, huh, I guess they must love that product? but then you turn the page and it’s the *actual cover* and you’re like, ooooooh you scamps!